I'm Handy

So, I accomplished a goal today. When I moved into my apartment I knew I was going to be here for a while and so I've been making some permanent changes. Stuff like painting the wall and placing shelves and rearranging furniture. I thought I had everything the way I wanted it until I decided to put my TV in the Living Room, thus covering up the mirror that hung about the entertainment center. So the mission?

Get this mirror from this wall:

To this wall:

It's harder than you may think and I had to put it on hold because as you may or may not know, you cannot hammer nails into a cement wall. So once I got my hands on a drill, we were in business. Gonna give a shout out to my aunt, Celeste, who has been so helpful with so much stuff including but not limited to letting me use her house so I can babysit a couple kids to earn some extra cash, letting me do my laundry--blankets and all--and lastly, for letting me use her drill and giving me the other tools I needed for this project.


In order to hang a mirror on a cement wall you will need the following tools:

A hand drill, drill bits, plastic fillers, and screws of choice.


These tools will also help:

They came out of my super cute tool box which is actually a bag.

And now we begin.


Figure out where you want to put the mirror on the wall and mark where the screws need to go. This mirror needed 2 screws so I had to use the level in this part of the process. Once you have the marks, drill a hole in the wall.

Make sure the hole you drill is deep enough for the plastic filler to fit in and hammer it in.

Should look like this:

Next grab your screws and drill them into the filler. I picked the ones I did, A.) Because they're pretty, and B.) Because they were the right length.

And once it looks like this you will be ready to hang the mirror up:

Mount the mirror and check yourself out. I sure did. I look so bad-a with power tools.

And there you have it folks, mission accomplished. I fell in love with my apartment all over again today. 

What I'm Listening To: 

For You (I Will) - Teddy Geiger
Show Me What I'm Looking For - Carolina Liar
Misery (Acoustic) - Maroon 5
Fix You - Coldplay
Lost - Michael Buble
Uprising - Muse
Undisclosed Desires - Muse
Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons
Last Christmas - Florence + The Machine
The Story - Brandi Carlile